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Lesson 275: ”God’s healing Voice protects all things today.”
Reframe: Love and truth guide and protect all that I perceive today.
Suggested Practice:
From now on:
Once in the morning and once in the evening for however many minutes feels sufficient. Then every hour remember/recite the idea for the day.
Prayer For today:
(feel free to swap out the wording to whatever resonates with you best)
“Your healing Voice protects all things today, and so I leave all things to You. ²I need be anxious over nothing. ³For Your Voice will tell me what to do and where to go; to whom to speak and what to say to him, what thoughts to think, what words to give the world. ⁴The safety that I bring is given me. ⁵Father, Your Voice protects all things through me.”(ACIM, W-275.2:1-5)
OR… “Let me hear truth and love today.”
For Lessons 271-280: What is the Christ? is the theme for the next 10 days. Read the whole article here.
”Christ is God’s Son as He created Him. ²He is the Self we share, uniting us with one another, and with God as well. ³He is the Thought which still abides within the Mind that is His Source. ⁴He has not left His holy home, nor lost the innocence in which He was created. ⁵He abides unchanged forever in the Mind of God.” (ACIM, W-pII.6.1:1-5).
OR put another way…
”We are all of the Light, created by the Light, united with the Light and one another in the Light. Be the Light.”
From the PART II Introduction: Read the whole introduction here.
“Words will mean little now. ²We use them but as guides on which we do not now depend. ³For now we seek direct experience of truth alone. ⁴The lessons that remain are merely introductions to the times in which we leave the world of pain, and go to enter peace. ⁵Now we begin to reach the goal this course has set, and find the end toward which our practicing was always geared.” (ACIM, W-pII.in.1:1-5)
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Message
This past series of Lessons, my ego mind has been resisting hard. I’ve put off doing the practices until later in the day, doom-scrolled on social media, or raided the refrigerator when I wasn’t even hungry. My challenge then becomes not judging myself for preaching the Course to everyone else but not living up to it myself. No judging! Because that guilt and self-judgment is just the ego mind’s tactic too—another way it keeps its grip.
I know that “not living up to it” part isn’t completely true. When it comes down to it, I hunker down and allow myself to do the practice in some form. It’s usually the writing that helps me address the Lesson. Today it also required that I face how I let ego mind rule most of the day. Like yesterday, it was mostly a blah day—another example of how the ego mind operates at a much subtler level of resistance, barely noticeable, almost trance-like. All I need do is have enough awareness to ask myself, “Do I feel peace, love, and joy right now?” If not, that’s ego mind, and I know what to do: wake up to Divine mind.
So what broke the trance for me today? My husband returning home from being out with one of his friends. I noticed the time and how I was in the same place doing the same thing as when he left. Yikes! The only thing I can attribute this to is that the Lessons of late are getting deeper into the heart of the Course’s teachings. And the more I want to fully embrace them, the more my ego mind resists because it fears its demise. If I’m striving for peace, love, and joy 24/7, where does that leave room for fear, limiting beliefs, and grievances—the ego’s domain?
So with the spell broken, I chose to listen to God’s voice—”go paint”—and went into my studio. I did the one thing I truly love: play with my art supplies and art projects, which included painting today’s segment of the Mandala of the Week [shown above]. I enjoyed myself so much that I could have gone on for hours. It raises the question: why do I put off doing what I love? Which prompted the next question: why do I seem to relegate my day to the ego mind’s rule by default? Excellent questions.
My answer, and my takeaway: I put off what I love and default to ego mind because it’s now playing by a different set of rules—more clever and subtle than ever. This is going to require more mindfulness on my part, as well as listening more to God’s healing voice, the Protector of my peace, love, and joy.
“Lesson 275 says it’s unnecessary to label and judge.”
— “The Course in Miracles Experiment” by Pam Grout
Blessings & Peace,
Maureen,
The Mandala Lady
transforming soul whispers into mandalas & channeled messages
for clarity, peace, and joy
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